Loki - Latest Prices
The current cost of a machine such as Loki or Hyglac is considerably
less than what we paid in September, 1996
Table 1 shows the costs for the relevant components
in August 1997. It is likely that a machine with components equivalent
to those in Loki or Hyglac will be constructed for less than $25,000
by the Fall of 1997, which would
result in price/performance figures which exceed those listed previously by
a factor of two.
Table 1:
Spot prices for August, 1997. These were
obtained from sites listed at
www.uvision.com.
A 16 processor 200Mhz-2 Gbyte memory-50 Gbyte disk system with
BayStack switch would be $28k.
| Item |
Description |
Price ($) |
| ASUS P/I-XP6NP5 |
motherboard |
220 |
| Pentium Pro |
200 MHz, 256k L2 |
467 |
| SIMM |
FPM 8x36x60, 32 Mbyte |
112 |
| Disk |
Quantum Fireball 3.2GB EIDE |
215 |
| Fast Ethernet |
DFE-500TX 21140 PCI |
53 |
| Misc. |
Case, Floppy, Heat Sink |
150 |
| BayStack 350T |
16 port 10/100 Mbit switch |
2500 |
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